The Black & Gold: Heights High

Heights High National Honor Society chapter to include juniors

The National Honor Society (NHS) is a prestigious, nationwide program that stresses service and character. To be eligible, students must have a 3.5 grade point average and community service experience, as well as leadership qualities as recognized by an advisor. Ultimately, a five-faculty member council decides who gets inducted, and has the final say on all matters proposed by the advisor.  NHS has a very optimistic outlook for the future, both immediate and long-term at Cleveland Heights High. According to Haethem Rasul, new advisor for NHS and established Renaissance guidance counselor, there will be quite a few changes to our high school’s local branch.

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Volume 3, Issue 11, Posted 6:24 PM, 10.30.2010

Outtakes New snack bar takes Heights cafeteria by storm

On August 31, students rushed into Cleveland Heights High School looking forward to a new year. There were a number of noticeable changes. The entrance looked better, the halls had been buffed, and there was something different in the lunch room: a room labeled “Outtakes,” with a relatively large sign, sat in the right corner of the cafeteria, its doors tightly closed.

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Volume 3, Issue 11, Posted 6:24 PM, 10.30.2010

Heights High staff book club

What started as a book club for Bellefaire teachers four years ago has grown into a bona fide reading group for Heights High staff. “Compared to most book groups, we are really low-key.  We read only two or three books a year,” according to Kathy Lawrence, Program Specialist of Libraries for the district and the group’s organizer. However, Lawrence is quick to add that all of the books have been worth the read, even the more obscure works.  “There are many well-read teachers in this school and I so appreciate their unique suggestions for titles, and the conversation they bring to the table around them.”

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Volume 3, Issue 11, Posted 6:23 PM, 10.30.2010

PSEO program brings opportunity to Heights

With more traditional courses being offered at Cleveland Heights High School, students are looking for more options: This is how the Post-Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program serves as an alternative. Through PSEO, which is paid for by tax dollars, students are offered the chance to take college courses for both college and high school credit.

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Volume 3, Issue 11, Posted 6:23 PM, 10.30.2010

Fred Thaxton: the man behind the beard

You can’t miss it. It falls gloriously down from his chin like a silvery waterfall of hair from the heavens above. In fact, anyone who doesn’t know Fred Thaxton probably wouldn’t remember anything from a chance encounter in the hall besides his massive beard.

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Volume 3, Issue 11, Posted 6:22 PM, 10.30.2010

8 Periods:The good, the bad, and the ugly

The mere notion of a longer school day was enough to elicit numerous complaints, grumbles, and grievances from the Cleveland Heights High student body. So, this school year, when the district added 48 minutes to the school day and shortened the time between classes in order to accommodate an eighth period, the change was met with some resistance.

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Volume 3, Issue 11, Posted 6:22 PM, 10.30.2010

Be Our Guest Students present annual musical, “Beauty and the Beast”

Costumes have arrived, sets have been built, and lights have been hung to ensure that all of this year’s stars of Cleveland Height’s High School’s annual musical, Beauty and the Beast, will shine. The Disney classic, a collaborative effort between a number of different organizations at Heights, opens Thursday, November 4 and runs through Sunday, November 7. 

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Volume 3, Issue 11, Posted 6:11 PM, 10.30.2010

Teacher receives conservation award

Cleveland Heights science teacher Janett Korb was awarded the Conservation Teacher of the Year Award early this school year from the Museum of Natural History. She received the award for her and her class’ work in water testing last spring. 

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded the city of Cleveland Heights a grant to build an environmentally friendly parking lot in Cumberland Park. The parking lot would prevent pollutants from running off into Dugway Brook, located near the park. Before construction, CHHS was asked to test the water. Ms. Korb eagerly led her honors biology students, along with Special Ed. students, in testing the quality of the water. 

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Volume 3, Issue 11, Posted 6:07 PM, 10.30.2010

Black and Gold’s merger with Heights Observer

A year ago, I wrote of The Black and Gold’s growing pains as the student newspaper of Cleveland Heights High School moved its production from the classroom setting of a journalism elective to that of a club produced publication.  The process was painful: we encountered logistical, technical and financial difficulties as we competed with the allure of other extra-curricular groups, sports teams, after-school jobs and the various demands of home and school in order to keep The Black and Gold alive. However, we did it – if not prolifically then, at least, in spirit – when we published two issues last year. 
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Volume 3, Issue 6, Posted 9:17 AM, 06.03.2010

Senior Destinations 2010!

This is a partial listing of schools as of June 1, 2010. We will update the list as we learn where more seniors will be attending college.
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Volume 3, Issue 6, Posted 9:15 AM, 06.03.2010

IMD travels to Cincinatti and Louisville on yearly Tour

From airplanes to tour buses, from Hollywood to Louisville, quite a bit has changed for the Cleveland Heights High Instrumental Music Department from last year’s tour to this year’s. But as both the band directors and the students will testify, the fun was still there.
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Volume 3, Issue 6, Posted 9:12 AM, 06.03.2010

Swim Cadets "Save the Day" with annual show

The Cleveland Heights High School Swim Cadets held their annual synchronized swimming show in Heights High’s South Pool, March 4-6. The show was entitled “Swim Cadets Save the Day,” with all music set to the theme of super heroes, super powers, and criminal justice. Songs included “Help” by the Beatles, “Unstoppable” by Santigold, “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas, “Zero to Hero” by Hercules, “Fighter” by Christina Aguilera, “Ring the Alarm” by Beyoncé, “Up Up and Away” by Kid Cudi, “Defying Gravity” from the Broadway show Wicked, “Staying Alive” by the Bee Gees, “I Shot the Sheriff” by Bob Marley, “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, and “Superwoman” by Alicia Keys.
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Volume 3, Issue 6, Posted 9:09 AM, 06.03.2010